An on-going, semi-written essay floating around in the circuitry of my cellphone deals with the new age philosophy about an impending "shift in consciousness" -- the notion that humanity could experience a 100th monkey shift into another realm of consciousness.

Most of the descriptions are left wanting and really never escape the new age circuit because they sound, well, new-agey. But I've been fascinated by this mime... wondering if it was just a fad that sells workshop tickets or if there's an underlying reality being described. That perhaps the rather large number of psychonauts, self-help gurus, fringe scientists, and undoubtedly brilliant futurists are really on to something.

Its profoundly obvious that the need for such a shift exists. For we're a little too paralyzed to deal with the parallel crises we're facing and like Einstein said, we can't solve a problem at the same level of consciousness at which it was created.

Along comes Jill Bolte Taylor.

I can't remember the last time I heard someone describe reality and consciousness so succinctly, gently waving back and forth between intuitive to intellectual. There's a lot to what she's saying that could be the missing key. Pure, simple recognition that all of our problems have been fostered by left brain perception.

And maybe, just maybe, if we allow ourselves to dance in the right a little bit more we can see the inherent Oneness of the universe and thereby put an end to all of the systems, habits and technologies that are tearing that Unity apart.

Enjoy: